On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:36:20 -0600, luger wrote:
> Camaleón wrote:
>> On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:35:04 -0600, luger wrote:
>>
>>> I just installed the "dia" package, dia starts up fine but immediately
>>> gives me a warning:
>>>
>>> failed to load icon for file
>>> /usr/share/dia/shapes/Flowchart/display.png
>>> cause=Couldn't recognize the image file format for file
>>> '/usr/share/dia/shapes/Flowchart/display.png'
>>>
>>> and also tells me there are 49 more messages.
>>
>> (...)
>>
>> The rest of the messages also point to PNG files?
>>
>> How about running the application (dia) from an empty/clean user?
>>
>> Although the error above seems like pointing to some sort of package/
>> library ("libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0" or maybe "libpng12-0") corruption :-?
>>
>>
> Thanks Camaleón,
>
> Yes, the rest of the (error) messages do point to the various other
> shape files and all have .png extension.
>
> Tried creating user "guest", then started "dia" from that user. Exactly
> same results.
>
> I completely uninstalled and then reinstalled "libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0",
> "libpng12-0", along with "dia", "dia-common", "dia-libs", and
> "dia-shapes". Before reinstalling, removed /usr/share/dia and the
> ".dia" configuration directory under the username I'm using. Still no
> change in either dia or synaptic.
>
> I cannot help but think my synaptic problem is related, so I tried
> starting synaptic from a konsole window (as root) and it displayed a lot
> of similar messages, only they were in reference to xpm files. Here's a
> typical synaptic message:
>
> synaptic:3454): Gtk-WARNING **: Could not load image
> 'synaptic_mini.xpm': Couldn't recognize the image file format for file
> '/usr/share/synaptic/gtkbuilder/synaptic_mini.xpm'
Does the same happen when you run "kdesu synaptic"?
> I note that the two lib packages you mentioned are used by a multitude
> of applications and include some that I know are working satisfactory.
>
> OK, something is messed up, either through my error or from upgrading
> Wheezy. All suggestions welcome.
IIRC, there was a recent update for some "pixbuf" packages. Should this
update still does not solve the issue, I would go to Debian BTS to open a
bug report for this. Maybe not a bug at all, but at least you will get a
better direction on where the problem can lay and how to solve it.
Greetings,
--
Camaleón